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A. POSNER. STAY FOR ANKLE PORTION OF SHOES.

No. 555,328. I Patent-ed Feb. 25, 1896-.

IN VE N TOR WITNESSES:

ATTbRI/EV NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ABRAHAM POSNER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

STAY FOR ANKLE PORTION OF SHOES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 555,328, dated February25, 1896.

Application filed October 23,1894. Serial No. 526,778. (No model.)

stays or braces for the ankle portion of shoes,

the object being to produce a stay or brace that may be easily attachedto or removed from any pair of shoes or transferred from one pair ofshoes to another, and therefore making the stay or brace of much moreutility than those in which the stay is permanently attached to the shoeor those in which bones .or stays are placed in shoes having pocketsformed in the material of the shoe.

I will describe a stay or brace embodying my invention and then pointout the novel features in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of the shoehaving a stay or brace attached and embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is asectional plan view on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 shows the stay orbrace spread out, with a portion broken away to show a pocket andstidener; and Fig. i is a section of a portion of the same. Figs. 3 andi are drawn on an enlarged scale.

Referring by letter to the drawings, A designates a shoe having at theupper inner end of the ankle portion a lining-strip a of suitablematerial-such, for instance, as leather. The strip a is attached to thematerial of the shoe at its upper edge and ends only, the lower edgebeing detached therefrom.

B designates the stay or brace consisting of two strips of flexiblematerial, such as a textile material. The two strips are securedtogether by vertical rows of stitching I), thus forming vertical pocketsZ) within which stiffeners B are placed. The stiffeners may consist ofany suitable or flexible or yielding material, such as steel, whaleboneor substitutes therefor.

The stay or brace extends around the inner side of the ankle portion ofthe shoe and from the upper end thereof to the insole of the shoe. Thestay or brace has its upper end inserted between the strip a and thematerial of the shoe, and the said strip a may alone serve as a retainerto support the stay or brace in position; but it may provide additionalretaining devices-such, for instance, as buttons 19 attached to the stayor brace and adapted to engage in buttonholes a in the strip a.

It will be seen from the foregoing description that the stay or brace isformed substantially of one integral whole and may be easily removed orattached in its complete form. Therefore it forms a complete article ofmanufacture and commerce.

Having described my invention, what I claim is 1. The combination with ashoe having the lining-strip detached from the shoe at its lower edge,of the removable stay or brace, having its upper end inserted beneathsaid strip, substantially as specified.

2. The combination with a shoe having the ankle-strip'a loose at itslower edge, of the stay or brace of flexible material, having verticalpockets, stifieners in said pockets and retaining devices other than thestrip a, substantially as specified.

Signed at New York city, in the county and State of New York, this 18thday of October,

ABRAHAM POSNER. lVitnesses:

SAMUEL MEYERS, HENRY GELLIS.

